Adenylyl cyclase A expression is tip-specific in Dictyostelium slugs and directs StatA nuclear translocation and CudA gene expression

Developmental Biology

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 151-160

  Wijk, Irene Verkerke Van ^a   Fukuzawa, Masashi ^b   Devreotes, Peter N ^c   Schaap, Pauline ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenylyl cyclase A; cAMP oscillations; Dictyostelium discoideum; Organizer; STAT transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CYCLIC AMP; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; STAT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MATURATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0035371364     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0232     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Aguado-Velasco, C., and Bretscher, M. S. (1999). Circulation of the plasma membrane in Dictyostelium. Mol. Biol. Cell 10, 4419-4427.
2. Araki, T., Gamper, M., Early, A., Fukuzawa, M., Abe, T., Kawata, T., Kim, E., Firtel, R. A., and Williams, J. G. (1998). Developmentally and spatially regulated activation of a Dictyostelium STAT protein by a serpentine receptor. EMBO J. 17, 4018-4028.
3. Bretschneider, T., Siegert, F., and Weijer, C. J. (1995). Three-dimensional scroll waves of cAMP could direct cell movement and gene expression in Dictyostelium slugs. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92, 4387-4391.
4. Detterbeck, S., Morandini, P., Wetterauer, B., Bachmair, A., Fischer, K., and MacWilliams, H. K. (1994). The 'prespore-like cells' of Dictyostelium have ceased to express a prespore gene: Analysis using short-lived beta-galactosidases as reporters. Development 120, 2847-2855.
5. Dingermann, T., Reindl, N., Werner, H., Hildebrandt, M., Nellen, W., Harwood, A., Williams, J., and Nerke, K. (1989). Optimization and in situ detection of Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase gene expression in Dictyostelium discoideum. Gene 85, 353-362.
6. Dormann, D., Abe, T., Weijer, C. J., and Williams, J. G. (2001). Inducible nuclear translocation of a STAT protein in Dictyostelium prespore cells: Implications for morphogenesis and cell-type regulation. Development 128, 1081-1088.
7. Firtel, R. A. (1995). Integration of signaling information in controlling cell-fate decisions in Dictyostelium. Genes Dev. 9, 1427-1444.
8. Franke, J., and Kessin, R. H. (1992). The cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases of Dictyostelium discoideum: Molecular genetics and biochemistry. Cell. Signal. 4, 471-478.
9. Fukuzawa, M., Hopper, N., and Williams, J. (1997). cudA: A Dictyostelium gene with pleiotropic effects on cellular differentiation and slug behaviour. Development 124, 2719-2728.
10. Fukuzawa, M., and Williams, J. (2000). Analysis of the promoter of the cudA gene reveals novel mechanisms of Dictyostelium cell type differentiation. Development 127, 2705-2713.
11. Hall, A. L., Franke, J., Faure, M., and Kessin, R. H. (1993). The role of the cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase of Dictyostelium discoideum during growth, aggregation, and morphogenesis: Overexpression and localization studies with the separate promoters of the pde. Dev. Biol. 157, 73-84.
12. Johnson, R. L., Van Haastert, P. J. M., Kimmel, A. R., Saxe III, C. L., Jastorff, B., and Devreotes, P. N. (1992). The cyclic nucleotide specificity of three cAMP receptors in Dictyostelium. J. Biol. Chem. 267, 4600-4607.
13. Kawata, T., Early, A., and Williams, J. (1996). Evidence that a combined activator-repressor protein regulates Dictyostelium stalk cell differentiation. EMBO J. 15, 3085-3092.
14. Kim, H. J., Chang, W. T., Meima, M., Gross, J. D., and Schaap, P. (1998). A novel adenylyl cyclase detected in rapidly developing mutants of Dictyostelium. J. Biol. Chem. 273, 30859-30862.
15. Klein, P. S., Sun, T. J., Saxe III, C. L., Kimmel, A. R., Johnson, R. L., and Devreotes, P. N. (1988). A chemoattractant receptor controls development in Dictyostelium discoideum. Science 241, 1467-1472.
16. Meima, M. E., and Schaap, P. (1999). Fingerprinting of adenylyl cyclase activities during Dictyostelium development indicates a dominant role for adenylyl cyclase B in terminal differentiation. Dev. Biol. 212, 182-190.
17. Mohanty, S., Jermyn, K. A., Early, A., Kawata, T., Aubry, L., Ceccarelli, A., Schaap, P., Williams, J. G., and Firtel, R. A. (1999). Evidence that the Dictyostelium Dd-STATa protein is a repressor that regulates commitment to stalk cell differentiation and is also required for efficient chemotaxis. Development 126, 3391-3405.
18. Nellen, W., Datta, S., Reymond, C., Sivertsen, A., Mann, S., Crowley, T., and Firtel, R. A. (1987). Molecular Biology in Dictyostelium: Tools and Applications. In "Methods in Cell Biology" (J. A. Spudich, Ed.), Vol. 28, pp. 67-100. Academic Press, Orlando, FL.
19. Noegel, A., Gerisch, G., Stadler, J., and Westphal, M. (1986). Complete sequence and transcript regulation of a cell adhesion protein from aggregating Dictyostelium cells. EMBO J. 5, 1473-1476.
20. Oyama, M., and Blumberg, D. D. (1986). Interaction of cAMP with the cell-surface receptor induces cell-type specific mRNA accumulation in Dictyostelium discoideum. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83, 4819-4823.
21. Parent, C. A., and Devreotes, P. N. (1995). Isolation of inactive and G protein-resistant adenylyl cyclase mutants using random mutagenesis. J. Biol. Chem. 270, 22693-22696.
22. Parent, C. A., and Devreotes, P. N. (1996). Molecular genetics of signal transduction in Dictyostelium. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 65, 411-440.
23. Pitt, G. S., Brandt, R., Lin, K. C., Devreotes, P. N., and Schaap, P. (1993). Extracellular cAMP is sufficient to restore developmental gene expression and morphogenesis in Dictyostelium cells lacking the aggregation adenylyl cyclase (ACA). Genes Dev. 7, 2172-2180.
24. Pitt, G. S., Milona, N., Borleis, J., Lin, K. C., Reed, R. R., and Devreotes, P. N. (1992). Structurally distinct and stage-specific adenylyl cyclase genes play different roles in Dictyostelium development. Cell 69, 305-315.
25. Raper, K. B. (1940). Pseudoplasmodium formation and organization in Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Elisha Mitchell Scient. Soc. 56, 241-282.
26. Schaap, P. (1986). Regulation of size and pattern in the cellular slime molds. Differentiation 33, 1-16.
27. Schaap, P., and Van Driel, R. (1985). Induction of post-aggregative differentiation in Dictyostelium discoideum by cAMP: Evidence of involvement of the cell surface cAMP receptor. Exp. Cell Res. 159, 388-398.
28. Soderbom, F., Anjard, C., Iranfar, N., Fuller, D., and Loomis, W. F. (1999). An adenylyl cyclase that functions during late development of Dictyostelium . Development 126, 5463-5471.
29. Steinbock, O., Siegert, F., Müller, S. C., and Weijer, C. J. (1993). Three-dimensional waves of excitation during Dictyostelium morphogenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90, 7332-7335.
30. Thilo, L., and Vogel, G. (1980). Kinetics of membrane internalization and recycling during pinocytosis in Dictyostelium discoideum. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77, 1015-1019.
31. Wang, B., and Kuspa, A. (1997). Dictyostelium development in the absence of cAMP. Science 277, 251-254.
32. Wang, M., Van Driel, R., and Schaap, P. (1988). Cyclic AMP-phosphodiesterase induces dedifferentiation of prespore cells in Dictyostelium discoideum slugs: Evidence that cyclic AMP is the morphogenetic signal for prespore differentiation. Development 103, 611-618.